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Friday, March 31, 2023
A Pernicious Affectation
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 33.2 (1912) 227-241 (at 237):
One pernicious affectation is a certain tip-tilted sniffing at great authors whom it
is our business to try to understand and not to censure.